H. B. Warner Quotes

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

I am definitely a west London girl.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Morality is a personal matter.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Isolation breeds conceit.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.